Would you believe that three billion photographs have been uploaded to Flickr? And not all by me!
Wrote about this on e-Learning Stuff.
WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Is Cracked
Well it had to happen one day!
According to a report from PCWorld Magazine WPA has been broken.
Security researchers say they’ve developed a way to partially crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standard used to protect data on many wireless networks.
Read more.
Changing the battery
On my old G4 PowerBook, changing the battery was a piece of cake. Shut the lid, wait until the light glowed, then remove the flat battery and replace it with a fully charged battery, lift the lid and back to work…
With the MacBook Pro you can’t do this… in theory it is suppose to suspend the computer and save the current state if you remove and replace the battery in the same way as I use to with the G4 Powerbook. However from my experience it is very much a 50/50 chance that what will actually happen is that replacing the battery will result in needing to boot the MacBook Pro. Of course this means that any unsaved work is not saved.
Annoying.
The problem is that (as far as I am aware) there is not a way to set the state of suspension manually, you have to let the computer do it.
As a result I do like the hibernation mode that you find on Windows laptops, very easy to replace the battery then, though it can take an age to resume from hibernation.
Ooops I missed Spooks
I knew Spooks was coming back this autumn, however not watching much on the television recently meant I didn’t see any trailers. Nor did I get a newspaper either, so didn’t know that it was on tonight at 9pm.
Years ago it would have been a problem as I would have to wait until repeats.
Now we have a few technologies which make it much easier.
I could wait until it appears on DVD, though generally with BBC programmes it takes a long time to get onto DVD.
With Freeview I can watch repeats on BBC Three later this week…
And of course BBC iPlayer means I can watch it now, less than 30 minutes after it finished on BBC One.
Cool.
No joy with Nokia N810 and JoikuSpot
I have been using JoikuSpot for a few weeks now, with great success with an iPod touch, works a treat.
Decided today to see if I could use it with a Nokia N810.
Hmmm.
Well, no I couldn’t. For some reason though it could connect to the JoikuSpot wireless network, it would not get to the JoikuSpot launch page and as a result no other internet access was possible.
The Pro version may work, but if it uses a launch page then I am guessing it still won’t work.
Levelator
If you are combining recordings or have multiple inputs into a recording it can be a real nightmare to get the levels right. Now you could spend a lot of time and money mixing in the different recordings, however a quick and easy method is to use Levelator.
It’s software that runs on Windows, OS X (universal binary), or Linux (Ubuntu) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example. It’s not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It’s much more than those tools, and it’s much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler’s application window, and a few moments later you’ll find a new version which just sounds better.
Find out more about Levelator.
Why your boss should never be your Facebook friend?
Amusing article on why you should be careful on what you post to social networking sites such as Facebook.
There are many good reasons for not having your boss as a Facebook friend, and Sydney call centre worker Kyle Doyle has just discovered the most convincing of them all.
What this does show more than anything is the need for our learners to be given advice and guidance on how to conduct themselves online, a digital literacy.
Josie Fraser has written an excellent article on her work on digital literacy and it is well worth reading.
Why your boss should never be your Facebook friend
Amusing article on why you should be careful on what you post to social networking sites such as Facebook.
There are many good reasons for not having your boss as a Facebook friend, and Sydney call centre worker Kyle Doyle has just discovered the most convincing of them all.
The new MacBooks
Popped into the Apple Store today to check out the new MacBooks and boy are they nice. Though I had seen them online, there is something about seeing them in the flesh.
They are constructed well and I like the way they are made from a brick of aluminum.
I might have to get one.
Are you on Twitter?
Are you on Twitter?
From the Handheld Learning 2008 Conference.